Duality Principles in Nonconvex Systems: Theory, Methods and Applications (Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications)

Yang Gao, David

ISBN 10: 0792361458 / ISBN 13: 9780792361459

Editore: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 2000

Riguardo questo articolo

VERY GOOD hardcover, no marks in text, clean exterior.

Codice articolo 090893

Dati bibliografici

• Titolo: Duality Principles in Nonconvex Systems: Theory, Methods and Applications (Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications)
• Editore: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0792361458
• ISBN 13: 9780792361459
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Very Good
• Tipo di libro: Book
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Alibris

Descrizione articolo

Riassunto

Motivated by practical problems in engineering and physics, drawing on a wide range of applied mathematical disciplines, this book is the first to provide, within a unified framework, a self-contained comprehensive mathematical theory of duality for general non-convex, non-smooth systems, with emphasis on methods and applications in engineering mechanics. Topics covered include the classical (minimax) mono-duality of convex static equilibria, the beautiful bi-duality in dynamical systems, the interesting tri-duality in non-convex problems and the complicated multi-duality in general canonical systems. A potentially powerful sequential canonical dual transformation method for solving fully nonlinear problems is developed heuristically and illustrated by use of many interesting examples as well as extensive applications in a wide variety of nonlinear systems, including differential equations, variational problems and inequalities, constrained global optimization, multi-well phase transitions, non-smooth post-bifurcation, large deformation mechanics, structural limit analysis, differential geometry and non-convex dynamical systems.
With exceptionally coherent and lucid exposition, the work fills a big gap between the mathematical and engineering sciences. It shows how to use formal language and duality methods to model natural phenomena, to construct intrinsic frameworks in different fields and to provide ideas, concepts and powerful methods for solving non-convex, non-smooth problems arising naturally in engineering and science. Much of the book contains material that is new, both in its manner of presentation and in its research development. A self-contained appendix provides some necessary background from elementary functional analysis.
Audience: The book will be a valuable resource for students and researchers in applied mathematics, physics, mechanics and engineering. The whole volume or selected chapters can alsobe recommended as a text for both senior undergraduate and graduate courses in applied mathematics, mechanics, general engineering science and other areas in which the notions of optimization and variational methods are employed.

Contenuti

Preface. Acknowledgments. Part I: Symmetry in Convex Systems. 1. Mono-Duality in Static Systems. 2. Bi-Duality in Dynamical Systems. Part II: Symmetry Breaking: Triality Theory in Nonconvex Systems. 3. Tri-Duality in Nonconvex Systems. 4. Multi-Duality and Classifications of General Systems. Part III: Duality in Canonical Systems. 5. Duality in Geometrically Linear Systems. 6. Duality in Finite Deformation Systems. 7. Applications, Open Problems and Concluding Remarks. Appendices. References. Index.